The thought of visiting a plating shop in the Midwest that’s been in business since the ‘50s likely conjures the idea of a dark and dank warehouse crammed full of old process tanks and bins of parts.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A multivariate distribution for describing the life-lengths of the components of a system which operates in an environment that is different ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), Vol. 59, No. 2 (Aug., 1997), pp. 209-228 (20 pages) In this paper we derive expressions for the reliability functions of ...

Understanding the relationships between community composition, community structure and ecosystem function is challenging, particularly for microbially-mediated processes. The small size of ...